Pat,

In response to your post about the mother with swollen hands and feet etc +
baby 'loosing' weight. I've seen this once, with myself. I had quite a bit
of water retention in the last months of my last pregnancy. My daughters
birth weight was 4550g, but by day 3 she was 4000g. This, I'm convinced, was
fluid + meconium + urine and she fed like trooper from (almost) the start. I
myself got a shot of oxytocin at home before transfering to the hospital and
enden up having even more extreme fluid retention which didn't start to
subside until the end of the first week. Interestingly it didn't effect milk
production, although engorgement was a problem soon fixed by RPS &
expression. Nobody, including her ped. was concerned about the rappid weight
loss, in fact she was weighed on discharge (3 days) with absolutely no
comment (although they may not have dared to comment anymore about us ;-)!

I think Rachel's post about the way they observe babies behaviour should be
employed more widely instead of obsessing about weight all the time. It
seems that birth weight is an obsession. Whenever people ask me what my last
weighed I always tell them 'somewhere between 4000g &  4550g! I guess she
with out the oedema she was around 4100 - 4200g with the meconium. You see!
If you start to try and work it out exactly you can't (at least no me).

groetjes

Sara Bernard
The Netherlands - speaking from the big-baby experience side of the coin.

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